I agree with Unreallystic. My knowledge of TF is barebones compared to some of you guys. I just remember having the toys as a kid and vaguely remember any sort of story aside from the basics. From a movie standpoint I wasn’t that impressed. My main problem with the movie wasn’t even the story, but the pacing.
I have the movies split into thirds. The first partof the movie I really enjoyed. It had a great mix of action and story going, and had me invested in what was going on. The second part of the movie was completely just exposition which started to drag for me. And the last part was just shit blowing up. All that story that they seemed to be building just got lost in all that stuff going on. I mean that one scene with the building toppling lasted FOREVER.
And I understand the effect they were trying to elicit with those slo-mo executions of certain robots (characters?), but they didn’t really do a good job of giving those characters that went “bye-bye” any depth for me to actually care what happened to them. As far as story goes there weren’t really any cool twists. To me how the movie was played out, when the plot twist finally came it wasn’t “oh shit!” it was more like “yeah of course that was gonna happen” because they made it so blatantly obvious.
The main reason I disliked part 2 was because of that last action sequence where it took an hour for sam to get from point A to point B, even though it was seriouslyl ike 100 feet apart from each other. And I disliked this one because the last sequence reminded me exactly of ROTF
Why do people go to action movies and look for the meaning of life like it’s Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon? Do you guys go to the movies with a pen and a pad like you’re on some Ebert and Roeper shit?
This has been THE INVINCIBLE SWORDSMAN saying:
Does anybody really give a shit about the plot and character development to Enter The Dragon? Does anybody here actually rewind that movie for the acting of Jim Kelly and Jon Saxon?
part three was pretty good…Bay’s style still annoys me somettimes though, it’s like watching Armageddon with robots in it. Shia had me crackin up. i gave it a solid 8.5 out of 10
my only fanboy complaint in all three movies is not seeing soundwave use ALL of his cassette spies i remember from childhood. he was always my favorite decepticon. i love a competent bad guy lol
Did I say I’m looking for that shit when I’m watching action movies. I go into action movies knowing that the stories aren’t going to be the driving force of the movie. With that said that doesn’t mean (with a movie with that massive of a budget) that a movie can be completely devoid of it. I saw First Class as an action summer blockbuster type of movie and I thought that was great. Same for Iron Man, same for Thor and I thought all of those were very commendable. TF3 on the other hand, the was so bad all that other shit that’s supposed to excite me didn’t because I couldn’t stop thinking how awful the pacing was.
This has been LITTLE JIMMY saying:
Just because my opinion of the movie isn’t the same as yours doesn’t necesitate hostility. This thread doesn’t need any R-Truth antics, chill the fuck out.
Just listen to yourself, one of your earlier complaints about the movie was the level of fireworks and other special effects going on. Its a high-budget summer action movie with giant robots, what do you expect?
I hate to say, “duh” but you set yourself up for it with such foolish comments.
I also get the feeling you’re trying to hold the movie to another standard set by those of a different genre. The vast majority of action movies, high-quality or otherwise, will have the same elements you bash.
I’m a little annoyed we spent money on this movie. AGAIN, if it weren’t for the “Tranformers” part of the plot,
I would have given Bay a giant ass middle finger. Even worse is when you’re using direct footage from your
previous movie (The Island) too compensate for the death of a stunt gone wrong (stunt woman actually died
during the making of T3).
Hope I’m not the only one thinking that Malkovich/Dempsey were completely and utterly misplaced.
I seriously hope there won’t be anymore Bay-Transformers movies—if so, I’m not even gonna rent. Ugh.
I don’t get it. Why are you going to the theatres? Why? I don’t understand. You guys say you don’t like Michael Bay. You guys think all his movies are awful. Yet, YOU GO TO THE MOVIE THEATRE AND SHELL OUT YOUR MONEY anyway. Why? Are you expecting him to do something out of the norm?
So all I have to do is put something that says “Transformers” on it and you guys will hand over your money to me like little dogs?
I went to go see Ninja Assassin in theatres a few years ago. The movie was called Ninja Assassin. I expected to see ninjas, assassins, and lots of death and cool action/combat/martial arts scenes. Unfortunately for that movie, the action sucked and the combat was lame. THAT is an example of an actual BAD ACTION MOVIE.
This has been THE INVINCIBLE SWORDSMAN saying:
There was a preview of that Cowboys vs Aliens movie on tv. That movie doesn’t look interesting to me at all. There doesn’t look to be enough action and cool action scenes. Watching a cowboy with a weird weapon on his wrist who lost his memory (UGH!) and some other cowboys fight aliens who seem to have better technology… it’s looks dumb. But I’m supposed to go to the thatre and spend my money on it… because it was directed by Spielberg, who’s made a couple of movies that I liked?
What are you people doing? Why give your money to something you have a pretty good chance of not liking?
lol, if I rolled my eyes any harder, they’d spin out of their sockets and pirouette on my desk for five minutes.
My mistake was making a post in this thread in the first place. This is SRK, where expecting logic and reading comprehension is akin to a room full of toddlers being instructed to read japanese braille.
Thanks for showing me how foolish my comments were, because they were foolish indeed.
WTF? Ninja Assassin was awesome. Great action scenes, if a bit unrealistic, passable enough story by action movie standards, characters were alright, and Sho Kosugi made a brief return to Ninja flicks!
(Sho Kosugi= classic 80’s action star known for various ninja movie roles)
Assassin is part of the definition of Ninja along with Spy, Theif, so on. We know part of a Ninjas repertoire is Assassination so there’s no need to put in the title. it’s redundant.
But they were in a city and had to cover a huge area to get to the building where they had to shoot the rocket at the space bridge pillars. I wouldn’t call that being 100 feet apart like in part 2. Again, that whole Chicago situation was NOTHING like the last parts of ROTF.
There is a difference between using stock footage, and repackaging special effects and action scenes…
lol you mean over use of slo mo (gotta have a scene with a slo motion scream in all of his movies), scenes of dudes running towards jets, speeches by a President, random Americana (count how many flag shots, etc are prominently in his movies), and then throw in an assload of product placement (Cisco must have paid a fortune for TF3). Done, you’re now officially Mr Bay.
Ninja Assassin blew chunks. The action was awful. Just awful. I know it was supposed to be unrealistic. I got no problem with that. But why, for heaven sakes why…
…did the blood have to flow like a dam had broke from just the minute of stabs and slices?
…did the ninjas in the background just dance around do nothing while the fighting was going on?
… were so many friggin cut scenes in the fights with the last ninja?
The first big action scene was cool only in that there was a lot of shit getting cut up. And I liked the teleports of the last scene. Everything else in between was just… ugh. And I dig Sho Kosugi. The man starred in a few crappy old school white-boy kungfu flicks that sucked but he was good in them. Didn’t save this flick from having wack action scenes.
This has been THE INVINCIBLE SWORDSMAN saying:
You know what Ninja Assassin reminded me of? Machine Girl. But without the unintentional hilariousness. The stupid shit in Machine Girl could be forgiven because it was supposed to be that way. Ninja Assassin led me astray from jump. Thumbs down!
i imagine there were so many cut scenes in the last scene cause their were 2 different ninjas playing the main character in that scene. all the acrobatic shit was jackson spidell…a stuntman. also prob to fool you into realizing jackson and the main actor are the same size.